Shandra Carter, LCSW
The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development
Project Director
Shandra Carter is an accomplished mental health professional with 20 years of experience In the human services field. She has dedicated her career to serving vulnerable populations, especially children who have suffered from sexual exploitation and abuse. Shandra serves as Project Director for the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University. She works to help Houston area programs serving child sex trafficking victims implement Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) as their trauma responsive model of care. Shandra served as the State Director for Child Sex Trafficking for Arrow Child & Family Ministries. She began with Arrow’s a residential treatment for victims of child sex trafficking, implementing TBRI as a deeply integrated practice and launching therapeutic services for sex trafficking survivors in foster care.
